Oxford is home not just to lost causes and dreaming spires but to the largest concentration of medieval manuscripts within any European university. This course will give you privileged access …
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century philologists have often claimed that early scholars could only generalize about the manuscripts they used, since they did not know the history of scripts and had no …
Course Length: 22 hours Course Week: 10–14 June 2024 Format: online only Fee: $1,000 Over the past 20 years, the number of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that have been digitized …
Course Length: 22 hours Course Week: 17–22 July 2022 Format: online only Fee: $1,000 The study of medieval manuscript fragments has developed into its own specialization in recent years, incorporating …
Length: 10 hours Format: Online This course is for students who have not yet had the opportunity to study Islamicate manuscripts. It is an introductory course and will take a …
This seminar focuses on the Book of Hours—the medieval “bestseller”—popular for three hundred years, from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth century. The course will consider both the textual and pictorial contents …
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 6–11 July 2025 Format: in person, Free Library of Philadelphia Fee: $1,495 Though the arts of the manuscript book constitute one of the most …
An introduction to European handwritten documents of the early modern and modern periods, including manuscript books; official, ecclesiastical, commercial, and domestic documents (account books, wills, inventories, deeds, indentures, and recipe …
A survey of Indian manuscript illustration concentrating on both imperial and regional styles. Through lectures and the direct study of miniatures, the course will cover the development of the art …
An introduction to this neglected field, including reading, transcribing (and expanding abbreviations), identification, classification, dating and localization of the principal kinds of Gothic and humanistic book script. Examples of Latin …
“I would definitely recommend the course to anyone who is past the introductory level and would like to enhance their skills.” —2017 student This advanced course in medieval manuscript studies …
This course is aimed at those who, whether by professional or personal interests, seek some basics on what can be a difficult field. Because of their light-sensitive nature, manuscripts are …
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